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Thousands
of
men
and
thousands
of
women
have
seen
their
hearts
change
,
their
vows
and
faith
and
trust
flouted
,
and
have
even
carried
their
wounds
into
the
secret
places
of
their
souls
,
or
gone
forth
,
and
gladly
,
to
death
at
their
own
hands
because
of
them
.
As
the
district
attorney
said
in
his
address
,
it
is
not
new
and
it
will
never
be
old
.
Never
!
"
But
it
is
such
a
case
as
this
last
,
I
warn
you
,
that
you
are
now
contemplating
and
are
about
to
pass
upon
--
a
girl
who
is
the
victim
of
such
a
change
of
mood
.
But
that
is
not
a
legal
,
however
great
a
moral
or
social
crime
it
may
be
.
And
it
is
only
a
curious
and
almost
unbelievably
tight
and
yet
utterly
misleading
set
of
circumstances
in
connection
with
the
death
of
this
girl
that
chances
to
bring
this
defendant
before
you
at
this
time
.
I
swear
it
.
I
truly
know
it
to
be
so
.
And
it
can
and
will
be
fully
explained
to
your
entire
satisfaction
before
this
case
is
closed
.
"
However
,
in
connection
with
this
last
statement
,
there
is
another
which
must
be
made
as
a
preface
to
all
that
is
to
follow
.
"
Gentlemen
of
the
jury
,
the
individual
who
is
on
trial
here
for
his
life
is
a
mental
as
well
as
a
moral
coward
--
no
more
and
no
less
--
not
a
downright
,
hardhearted
criminal
by
any
means
.
Not
unlike
many
men
in
critical
situations
,
he
is
a
victim
of
a
mental
and
moral
fear
complex
.
Why
,
no
one
as
yet
has
been
quite
able
to
explain
.
We
all
have
one
secret
bugbear
or
fear
.
And
it
is
these
two
qualities
,
and
no
others
,
that
have
placed
him
in
the
dangerous
position
in
which
he
now
finds
himself
.
It
was
cowardice
,
gentlemen
--
fear
of
a
rule
of
the
factory
of
which
his
uncle
is
the
owner
,
as
well
as
fear
of
his
own
word
given
to
the
officials
above
him
,
that
caused
him
first
to
conceal
the
fact
that
he
was
interested
in
the
pretty
country
girl
who
had
come
to
work
for
him
.
And
later
,
to
conceal
the
fact
that
he
was
going
with
her
.
"
Yet
no
statutory
crime
of
any
kind
there
.
You
could
not
possibly
try
a
man
for
that
,
whatever
privately
you
might
think
.
And
it
was
cowardice
,
mental
and
moral
,
gentlemen
,
which
prevented
him
,
after
he
became
convinced
that
he
could
no
longer
endure
a
relationship
which
had
once
seemed
so
beautiful
,
from
saying
outright
that
he
could
not
,
and
would
not
continue
with
her
,
let
alone
marry
her
.
Yet
,
will
you
slay
a
man
because
he
is
the
victim
of
fear
?
And
again
,
after
all
,
if
a
man
has
once
and
truly
decided
that
he
can
not
and
will
not
endure
a
given
woman
,
or
a
woman
a
man
--
that
to
live
with
her
could
only
prove
torturesome
--
what
would
you
have
that
person
do
?
Marry
her
?
To
what
end
?
That
they
may
hate
and
despise
and
torture
each
other
forever
after
?
Can
you
truly
say
that
you
agree
with
that
as
a
rule
,
or
a
method
,
or
a
law
?
Yet
,
as
the
defense
sees
it
,
a
truly
intelligent
and
fair
enough
thing
,
under
the
circumstances
,
was
done
in
this
instance
.
An
offer
,
but
without
marriage
--
and
alas
,
without
avail
--
was
made
.
A
suggestion
for
a
separate
life
,
with
him
working
to
support
her
while
she
dwelt
elsewhere
.
Her
own
letters
,
read
only
yesterday
in
this
court
,
indicate
something
of
the
kind
.
But
the
oh
,
so
often
tragic
insistence
upon
what
in
so
many
cases
were
best
left
undone
!
And
then
that
last
,
long
,
argumentative
trip
to
Utica
,
Grass
Lake
,
and
Big
Bittern
.
And
all
to
no
purpose
.
Yet
with
no
intention
to
kill
or
betray
unto
death
.
Not
the
slightest
.
And
we
will
show
you
why
.
"
Gentlemen
,
once
more
I
insist
that
it
was
cowardice
,
mental
and
moral
,
and
not
any
plot
or
plan
for
any
crime
of
any
kind
,
that
made
Clyde
Griffiths
travel
with
Roberta
Alden
under
various
aliases
to
all
the
places
I
have
just
mentioned
--
that
made
him
write
'
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Carl
Graham
,
'
'
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Clifford
Golden
'
--
mental
and
moral
fear
of
the
great
social
mistake
as
well
as
sin
that
he
had
committed
in
pursuing
and
eventually
allowing
himself
to
fail
into
this
unhallowed
relationship
with
her
--
mental
and
moral
fear
or
cowardice
of
what
was
to
follow
.
"
And
again
,
it
was
mental
and
moral
cowardice
that
prevented
him
there
at
Big
Bittern
,
once
the
waters
of
the
lake
had
so
accidentally
closed
over
her
,
from
returning
to
Big
Bittern
Inn
and
making
public
her
death
.
Mental
and
Moral
Cowardice
--
and
nothing
more
and
nothing
less
.
He
was
thinking
of
his
wealthy
relatives
in
Lycurgus
,
their
rule
which
his
presence
here
on
the
lake
with
this
girl
would
show
to
have
been
broken
--
of
the
suffering
and
shame
and
rage
of
her
parents
.
And
besides
,
there
was
Miss
X
--
the
brightest
star
in
the
brightest
constellation
of
all
his
dreams
.
